House of leaves for me too 😅 got 80% and loved it, then got busy again... now I'm intimidated to pick it back up

Gravity's Rainbow was a tough read. Took me about two months to complete it, and that's with the help of the companion wiki and a few chapter summaries whenever I didn't understand a single sentence no matter how hard I tried.

Gödel, Escher, Bach was a hard read, it took me until i think half way before it started to “roll”, and the mathematical logic chapter was rough. Overall, worth reading in its entirety. In particular its section on AI and the ideas they had at the time was very interesting, even if by now they are significantly out of date.

Some I’m not a music fan, for me personally the connection to music didn’t make the book any easier, but actually taught me some cool things about music I had never thought about.